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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • 1. Where do you find what shows/films to watch?

    I don’t discover it any certain way but once I know what I’m looking for I just search in qbittorrent. For anime I have RSS feeds set up.

    2. Do you stream for convenience or download for superior quality?

    I download.

    3. Where do you store media?

    Internal storage, currently some SSDs.

    4. What software are you using to watch it?

    mpv + fsr/Anime4K shaders.

    5. How do you keep track of your watchlist, which episode you already watched or where you left off in a movie?

    I use trackma/taiga with MAL for anime, for regular shows/movies I don’t use anything.






  • It’s when you open a publicly facing port and map (forward) it to a local port your machine. In this case, it’s opened at the vpn provider’s public gateway. Otherwise, it would typically be opened in your router instead.

    You can then configure your torrent client to listen on that local port that the public port is forwarded to. I think generally the public and the local port are the same number when using VPN.

    If you do that, then others have the ability to initiate a connection to you instead of only you being able to initiate the connection to somebody else.

    When seeding/leeching to/from someone else, at least one of you needs a port open. So, if you always have one open, you allow yourself to connect to anyone on the network regardless if they have one open or not.

    Sorry if I confused you more, I’m not that great at explaining.










  • There’s definitively more to a distro than the shell prompt and wallpaper.

    Besides the obvious package repos and how well package interoperability is maintained, there’s also differences for default configuration. OpenSUSE offers sane options for security OOtB, IMO.

    Then there’s also linux itself. Some distros build the default kernel package with a set of patches to improve typical usability, while others just ship an untouched upstream version. Some offer alternatives while others don’t.






  • I use debian 12 on my work laptop. I agree with your points but I still use it because I want the fundamental system to be stable, and then any software I want to be more up-to-date I build from source (tmux, alacritty, neovim) or download separately (vscode/slack/joplin).

    I used to use ubuntu because it worked so well with my hardware ootb, but I got tired of snap.